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God bless Kliska,

**The Catholic Church affirms predestination as a *DE FIDE *Dogma (the highest level of binding theological certainty).

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

THE CATHOLIC DOGMA. – The predestination of the elect** :newidea:

Consequently, the whole future membership of heaven, down to its minutest details, has

been IRREVOCABLY FIXED FROM ALL ETERNITY. Nor could it be otherwise. For if it

were possible that a predestined individual should after all be CAST INTO HELL or that

one not predestined should in the end REACH HEAVEN, then God would have been

MISTAKEN in his foreknowledge of future events; He would NO LONGER be omniscient.

God’s unerring foreknowledge and foreordaining is designated in the Bible by the beautiful

figure of the “Book of Life” (liber vitæ, to biblion tes zoes). This book of life is a list which

contains the names of ALL THE ELECT and admits NEITHER ADDITIONS NO ERASURES.

(2) The second quality of predestination, the DEFINITENESS of the number of the elect,

follows NATURALLY from the first. For if the eternal counsel of God regarding the

predestined is UNCHANGEABLE, then the number of the predestined must likewise be

UNCHANGEABLE and DEFINITE, subject NEITHER to ADDITIONS nor to

CANCELLATIONS. Anything indefinite in the number would eo ipso imply a lack of

certitude in God’s knowledge and would DESTROY His omniscience. End quote. Emphasis added.

**Quote: St. Thomas Aquinas, In his Summa Theologiae he wrote: ** :yup:

[P]erseverance is called he abiding in good **TO the end of life. **

And in order to have this perseverance man . . . needs the divine assistance guiding him

and guarding him against the attacks of the passions . . . that he may be kept from evil

TILL the end of his life (ST IIa:109:10)

**This same teaching was infallibly taught by the Council of Trent after the Protestant Reformation.

A Tiptoe Through TULIP by James Akin**

Quote: Trent’s Decree of Justification, canon 16, speaks of "That Great and Special Gift of

Final Perseverance," and chapter 13 of the decree speaks of "the gift of perseverance of

which it is written:

‘He who perseveres to the end shall be saved [Matt. 10:22, 24:13],’

Which cannot be obtained from anyone **except from Him who is able to make him who

stands to stand [Rom. 14:4]."**

**Aquinas said it always saves a person because of the kind of grace it is; The gift of final

perseverance always works. **

Catholics even have a special name for the GRACE God gives these people:** “the gift of final perseverance.” **

The Church formally teaches that there is a gift of final perseverance. [43] Aquinas (and

even Molina) said this grace always ensures that a person will persevere. [44] Aquinas

said, **“Predestination [to final salvation] most certainly and infallibly takes effect.” **

Aquinas (and even Molina) said this grace always ensures that a person will persevere.

In order to have this perseverance man…**needs the divine assistance guiding and

guarding him against the attacks of the passions**…” End quote

**Without this gift of God’s special grace “The Gift of Final Perseverance.” NONE OF US COULD

MAKE IT TO HEAVEN, without it the destiny of ALL OF US would be IN HELL. **

God gives this special protecting and guarding grace to **every of His children at baptism

called “The Gift of Final Perseverance.”**

**THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS SPECIAL PROTECTING AND GUARDING GRACE

How far this special protecting and guarding grace goes in our protection?**
  1. Aquinas said it always saves a person because of the kind of grace it is; The gift of final perseverance always works.
  2. Aquinas (and even Molina) said this grace always ensures that a person will persevere.
  3. St. Thomas Aquinas, In his Summa Theologiae he wrote:
**[P]erseverance is called he abiding in good TO the end of life. ** :amen:

God bless.

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Tommy999 said:
OSAS is a dangerous philosophy, in my opinion. It gives license to carnal Christians to continue to live that way and think it’s ok – after all, your ticket to eternal bliss has already been punched, right?

Those who adhere to OSAS are akin to declaring the football game over at halftime and thinking that the second half is irrelevant to the final result because you think you already have won the game. As the Atlanta Falcons found out in the Super Bowl, the second half is important, too.

I believe the Rev Billy Graham (whom I deeply admire and would consider to be on the road to sainthood if he were Catholic) is an exception. I’m pretty sure he believes in eternal security of the beiever, too, but he also has lived his life in such a way that he walks the walk on a regular basis in addition to talking the talk.
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It is dangerous in that many of those who hold this position fail to articulate it properly. If you give them enough time they’ll get to the point why it’s no licence to continue sinning (as Paul mentions in Romans) but most people don’t have the attention span to listen to why OSAS isn’t a licence to continue to sin.
 
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